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Ahh, another semester of grad school. How I missed it.
Yes, really. I wanna get things DONE. Also, I am having a blast. Although I was promptly reminded that this is dreaded Thesis Pickin' Tiem. The time in my coursework in which I pick a thesis topic and hope it doesn't turn out to be a huge debacle of some sort or other. But I'm not worried. I have an idea. I just need to flesh it out. I did some research over the break. I'll work it out. And I'm feeling good about my assistantship work, especially since the poster-submission deadline to the one conference is actually a month later than I thought it was. Yay.
And yes, I finally got to knap flint. Not properly, not exactly. I was given a massive chunk of rock and another rock, and told to beat the one rock with the other rock til it broke, so I did. It was a little class demo for my prehistoric artifacts analysis class, and the professor was trying to prove a point about material types, I think. The woman is brilliant, but she doesn't plan ahead and she is a terrible lecturer. TERRIBLE. Which is such a crying shame because she obviously knows her stuff. Dammit woman, why can't you communicate better?? Ugh, she could be marvelous if she wasn't so inept. I got enough of a hang of it to start roughing out an oversized perforator, so that was kind of exciting. And I didn't smash or lacerate any of my appendages in the process, so whoo for that. I'm quite pleased, actually. Hands-on activities like that are just the thing I was hoping to get out of this class to offset the poor planning and poor instruction I figured I'd receive, and so far everything is unfolding just like I planned.
Also, I spent the weekend in Philly with some old buddies from undergrad, which was delightful, but I am absolutely knackered today. So great to have all my grad school buddies back, and so great to be back in my apartment after ten days of sleeping on the floor. I spent a week at my parents' place where all I set up was a makeshift bedroll since I was trying to do some cleaning, then the aforementioned trip to Philly happened, which involved a sleeping back on a floor and then sharing an air mattress. So I am beyond excited to be back in my own bed. Which might end up with a new mattress in the next week, if I can decide whether to try and arrange transportation for cheap, or delivery for not-as-cheap, but arguably more reliable.
And that's life right now. How are you?
Yes, really. I wanna get things DONE. Also, I am having a blast. Although I was promptly reminded that this is dreaded Thesis Pickin' Tiem. The time in my coursework in which I pick a thesis topic and hope it doesn't turn out to be a huge debacle of some sort or other. But I'm not worried. I have an idea. I just need to flesh it out. I did some research over the break. I'll work it out. And I'm feeling good about my assistantship work, especially since the poster-submission deadline to the one conference is actually a month later than I thought it was. Yay.
And yes, I finally got to knap flint. Not properly, not exactly. I was given a massive chunk of rock and another rock, and told to beat the one rock with the other rock til it broke, so I did. It was a little class demo for my prehistoric artifacts analysis class, and the professor was trying to prove a point about material types, I think. The woman is brilliant, but she doesn't plan ahead and she is a terrible lecturer. TERRIBLE. Which is such a crying shame because she obviously knows her stuff. Dammit woman, why can't you communicate better?? Ugh, she could be marvelous if she wasn't so inept. I got enough of a hang of it to start roughing out an oversized perforator, so that was kind of exciting. And I didn't smash or lacerate any of my appendages in the process, so whoo for that. I'm quite pleased, actually. Hands-on activities like that are just the thing I was hoping to get out of this class to offset the poor planning and poor instruction I figured I'd receive, and so far everything is unfolding just like I planned.
Also, I spent the weekend in Philly with some old buddies from undergrad, which was delightful, but I am absolutely knackered today. So great to have all my grad school buddies back, and so great to be back in my apartment after ten days of sleeping on the floor. I spent a week at my parents' place where all I set up was a makeshift bedroll since I was trying to do some cleaning, then the aforementioned trip to Philly happened, which involved a sleeping back on a floor and then sharing an air mattress. So I am beyond excited to be back in my own bed. Which might end up with a new mattress in the next week, if I can decide whether to try and arrange transportation for cheap, or delivery for not-as-cheap, but arguably more reliable.
And that's life right now. How are you?
